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Definition: Frisky |
FriskyAdjective1. Playful like a lively kitten. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "frisky" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1590. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Multilingual Slang | Spanish (retozona). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: FriskySynonym: kittenish (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Activity | Adjective: active, brisk, brisk as a lark, brisk as a bee; lively, animated, vivacious; alive, alive and kicking; frisky, spirited, stirring. |
Cheerfulness | Playful, playsome; folatre, playful as a kitten, tricksy, frisky, frolicsome; gamesome; jocose, jocular, waggish; mirth loving, laughter-loving; mirthful, rollicking. |
Leap | Adjective: leaping; Verb: saltatory, frisky. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Frisky |
| English words defined with "frisky": Feather-heeled, friskily, Friskily' ♦ Jiggish ♦ Petulcous. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Frisky was caught in a tree! (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster) First Frisky now this! (Bio-Dome; writing credit: Adam Leff; Mitchell Peck) | |
Lyrics | I drove her home and she was feeling kinda frisky (Storybook Life; performing artist: Blessid Union Of Souls) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Frisky Mrs. Johnson (1920) When the Girls Got Frisky (1898) Euro-Max #1: Frisky in France (1995) Frisky Fables (1988) | |
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| "Frisky" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "Frisky" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 90% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Noun (proper) | 10% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 40 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
frisky | 68 |
frisky lizard | 35 |
frisky summer | 27 |
frisky kitty | 7 |
frisky summer thumbnail | 6 |
frisky girl | 4 |
frisky summer 4 | 3 |
frisky kitty.com | 3 |
frisky oyster | 2 |
frisky woman | 2 |
benguiat font frisky | 2 |
frisky teen | 2 |
frisky wife | 2 |
ami bel frisky summer | 2 |
frisky story | 2 |
frisky lesbian | 2 |
benguiat free frisky | 2 |
dj frisky | 2 |
benguiat frisky | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "frisky"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | lodrues, levend (brisk), i hedhur (active, alive, castaway, energetic, mercurial, refuse, skittish), i gjallë (above ground, alive, animate, animated, breathing, brisk, buckish, buoyant, busy, canty, colorful, colourful, crude, dapper, dashing, dynamic, elastic, erect, fresh, glowing, graphic, graphical, green, humming, intense, jocund, keen, larky, live, lively, living, mercurial, nimble, noisy, perky, pert, picturesque, playful, poignant, quick, raw, red blooded, saucy, skittish, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, spry, uncooked, vital, vivacious, vivid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مرح (airiness, airy, be merry, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyancy, buoyant, cheerful, cheerfulness, cheering, chirpy, exult, facetious, festive, fresh, frisk, frolic, frolicsome, fun, gaiety, gay, glee, gleeful, have fun, hilarious, hilarity, jaunty, jocose, jocosity, jocund, jolly, jovial, joviality, joy, joyful, joyfulness, joyous, kittenish, lark, light, lightsome, lively, make merry, merriment, merry, merry making, mirth, mirthful, perkiness, perky, playful, playfulness, playing, rejoice, rollick, romp, sportive, sprightly, sunny, vivacious, vivacity, what fun, winsome), لعوب (coltish, dallying, frivolous, playful, prankish, skittish, sportive, wanton). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | скоклив (leaping), игрив (blithe, coltish, frolic, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, jocose, kittenish, mischievous, monkeyish, pert, playful, skittish, sportful, sportive, tricksy, wanton). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 活跃 (Active). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | skotaèivý. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | virma, raisu (boisterous, romping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fringant (fresh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | munter (adroit, agile, alert, awake, blithe, blithely, blithesome, breezy, bright, brisk, cheerful, gay, jauntily, jaunty, keen, lilting, liltingly, lively, merry, perkily, perky, playful, sprightly, up, up and about, vivacious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πεταχτόσ (lively), ζωηρόσ (bobbish, bouncing, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, cheery, chipper, crisp, dapper, dashing, gay, grig, jaunty, lightsome, live, lively, lurid, mercurial, peppy, perky, poignant, quick, racy, rompish, smacking, smart, snappish, snappy, spanking, sparkish, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, vibrant, vivacious, vivid, volatile, zippy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | עליז (blithe, cheerful, festal, frolic, frolicsome, gay, hilarious, jocose, jocund, jolly, joyful, light hearted, merry, mirthful, playful, sprightly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | játékos kedvű. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | vivace (alive, animated, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, colorful, colourful, dashing, gay, jaunty, lively, perky, quick, racy, skittish, spirited, sprightly, spry, vibrant, vigorous, vivacious, vivid), saltellante. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 쾌활한 (Cheerful, jaunty, Playful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | reagh (amorous, blithe, frolicsome, lecherous, mirthful, playful, randy, sportive), mannanagh, bioyr (breezy, bright, brisk, graphic, lively, nippy, smart, soulstirring, spirited, spry, vibrant, vivacious, vivid, vivid as imagination, volatile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | spretten, leken. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iskyfray fogoso (ardent, burning, dashing, Fife, hot, hot tempered, hot-blooded, hotchpotch, hot-headed, hotstuff, impetuous, mettlesome, mettlesomeness, proud, proud-spirited, unruly), traquinar (frolic, romp), brincalhão (frolic, gamesome, hoity toity, jesting, jesuit, jocular, joker, joky, kittenish, larmier, mischievous, playful, prankish, rollicking, sportful, sporting, sportive, tricksy, waggish, wanton). (various references) zburdalnic (frolic, frolicsome, hoity toity, larky, sportive, sprightly), vesel (blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, convivial, crank, debonair, elastic, feastful, festal, frolic, frolicsome, full-blooded, gaily, gamesome, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, in full feather, in high feather, jauntily, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyfully, joyous, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, pleasant, riant, saucy, sprightly, tails up, wanton), nebunatic (devil may care, frolicsome, hoity toity, larky, wanton). (various references) резвый (frolic, wanton). (various references) curaideach. (various references) nestašan (be naughty, kittenish, mischievous, puckish, restless, rogue, unruly), energičan (driving, energetic, forcible, peppy, vigorous, zippy). (various references) vivaracho (dapper, jaunty), retozón (coltish, frolicsome, kittenish, rollicking). (various references) yster (coltish, skittish, wanton, wild), lekfull (frolic, frolicsome, gamesome, kittenish, playful, rompish, skittish, sportive). (various references) oyuncu (actor, gambler, hoaxer, performer, play actor, player, playful, prankish, sportive, thespian, trickster, tricksy, tricky), oynak (coquettish, flirtatious, frolicsome, loose, ludic, mobile, playful, skittish, unstable). (various references) яyldan, dyzmaз (hot to trot). (various references) грайливий (arch, facetious, gamesome, jocose, kittenish, playful, playsome, skittish, wanton), пустотливий (airy, arch, coltish, elfish, elvish, gamesome, impish, kittenish, mischievous, monkeyish, naughty, prankish, puckish, roguish, sly, waggish, wanton, whisky). (various references) nghịch ngợm; hay nô đùa. (various references) llamsachus (prancing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | delicata, delicatae, delicate, delicati, delicatum, delicatus. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Frisky" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: brisky, fdisk, Firsby, fisky, frasch, frasky, Fricsay, Friesch, Frik, friky, frisby, Friskie, frisy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "frisky" (pronounced fri"skē) |
| 5 | -r i" s k ē | risky. |
| 4 | -i" s k ē | whiskey, whisky. |
| 3 | -s k ē | husky, kolinski, Muskie, musky, pesky. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-i-k-r-s-y" | |
-1 letter: frisk, risky. | |
-2 letters: firs, irks, kifs, kirs, kris, rifs, risk. | |
-3 letters: fir, fry, ifs, irk, kif, kir, rif, sir, ski, sky, sri. | |
-4 letters: if, is, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-i-k-r-s-y" | |
+2 letters: friskily. | |
+4 letters: freakishly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 72 69 73 6B 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .-. .. ... -.- -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01110010 01101001 01110011 01101011 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F r i s k y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0072 0069 0073 006B 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)408475857791 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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